A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.

By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.

There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.